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Show « 1 ditches sufficiently to carry the hcrestender*a water. jn other caoe3 the hoceoteadere have leased carrying capacity in government ditches pending tho time -?hen , - ;•_ .* they could coTiplete the construction of their, own ditches*, The best irrigable lend on eachr:of the streams was chosen £o? allcttwent to the Indians. This land was not R'4f ' ' ,•'•;• '' • - -Y'v ' " • • ' -. .-,' • , ' . :. chocen in a body but in forty acre traotn wherever the best Icmd ce-J^^-i to be. This h«s resulted in scattering -foe Indians all o/er the reeervition and in irany instances; in cc trite hed • places revoke from o ther conanunities. After the ailottn_nuts bad been rHue,*3fhich required about 103,000 ccreCjthe reminder cf tho reservation was o-odh--. •?'".. subject to frame stead entry »n-i v.vch of it bno been taksn up by white .ten. 7h»ne filings are no-y interspersed with the Indians and their interests conflict in many nys . I give telo* a list of ditches showing the source of cupply and the acreage under each. • - .3: Ditch. Source-of Supply. Acreage .3 33 '•:. . ,77 yY3..7\3733 nench......Uintah piver. 520C ' '• .:• Uintah.... » '.; •-;.... • . 10120:-- 7ort Ruschesne1' ..Y.Y." o-y . yfl.. 12S0.Y. '7,...., 7YW- ;* Tfenry Jim " * - ,t 2500A7 ']"f Firm Creek, Thiterocks " 1500 y T)ee-p Creek n •'-. • * 7630" / • , - 7hiterocks • • 4720 . yyton Twnsito,]\ischesnew 8320 Cray fountain, v " 66407AY;. Curay School .--.,-' • " yF 5480 'f•'•'••..Ft: A Pahcease y ° * yfy 1720 ••'"•.' .'••: 7 : Lelnnd " " 1880 .Tosper pike B " 1520 |